U&period;S&period; Attorney General Jeff Sessions finally stopped making threats about legalized marijuana and actually took some action this month&period;

Hysteria and anxiety over his decision didn’t exactly materialize&period; Other than a drop in marijuana stocks due to skittish investors&comma; the marijuana world kept turning and cannabis kept selling&period; That includes California&comma; where legal recreational marijuana went on sale just days before Sessions’ announcement to rescind the Cole Memo issued during the Obama Administration broadly instituting a hands-off federal enforcement policy toward cannabis businesses operating legally under state law&period;

But while Sessions has ideological opponents&comma; his biggest opponent is this&colon; &dollar;10 billion&period; That’s an estimate from Arcview Media of legal marijuana sales once all the numbers are in for 2017&period;

Not a surprise&period;

It’s important to note that Sessions himself isn’t ordering a federal crackdown&period; He just gave local U&period;S&period; attorneys the right to do so if they found it was warranted&period;

Sessions decision to rescind the protections granted the marijuana industry by the Cole Memo hardly came as a surprise&period; He set the stage in 2017 by sending letters to officials in Colorado&comma; Oregon and Washington questioning their adherence to the memo&period;

So how could this all turn out&quest; There are two possibilities that&comma; ironically&comma; seem more likely than ever after Sessions’ decision&period;

Sessions gets fired&period;

Some of the biggest critics of Sessions’ decision are Republicans in Congress&comma; which is not a good look for Sessions&period; He already faces the possibility of perjury charges by Senate Democrats who believe he lied in testimony before a Senate committee&period;

Sessions also has had a rocky relationship with President Donald Trump&period; And he may have angered businesses and voters in Colorado&comma; a state that was considered up for grabs in the 2016 election&period; That’s not good for his boss&period;

Certainly&comma; he’s angered Colorado Senator Cory Gardner&comma; a Republican&period; In a speech on the Senate floor&comma; he said Sessions had not lived up to a commitment he made to Gardner before the attorney general’s confirmation hearing to honor states’ rights when it came to Colorado&period; Gardner said he’s holding up all appointments in the Department of Justice until Sessions explains himself&period;

Speaking of states’ rights&comma; Sessions has made it tricky for Republicans who typically support states’ rights&period; A crackdown on marijuana would completely undermine that stance&period;

It’s interesting that Politico could not find one member of Congress in either party who supported Sessions’ decision&period; Sessions seems to have angered many powerful people in many powerful positions&period; Whether that extends to Trump remains unclear&period;

The laws might be changed&period;

Much like Trump’s victory seemed to rally the left&comma; Sessions’ announcement has spurred talk that California and other states may work harder on getting a U&period;S&period; Supreme Court ruling on whether the federal government even has the authority to regulate marijuana in states that have made it legal&period;

Or&comma; there’s the possibility that the U&period;S&period; Congress will follow Canada’s lead and make marijuana legal nationwide&period; As pointed out by Politico&comma; this now seems a more likely scenario&period; Businesses nationwide have put millions in the marijuana industry&period; Sessions has created uncertainty&period; Many entrepreneurs are asking Congress for protection&period;

With the majority of Americans backing legalization and that &dollar;10 billion figure&comma; they just might get it&period;